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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... originally?” said the Lord Keeper, in continuation. “No; I am by birth an Englishwoman.” “Yet you seem at- 48 Bride of Lammermoor tached to this cou... ..., when old Lady Girnington dies.” “Did you ever hear the expression of the English divine?” said Ravenswood—”’Hell is paved with good intentions,’— as... ... to night! It’s shamefu’ epicurism; but that’s what we hae gotten frae the English pock-puddings.” “Hout, never mind the English pock-puddings,” said ... ... some allowed, and he had no small rea- son to apprehend the issue, if the English House of Lords should be disposed to act upon an appeal from the Ma... ... to express a doubt of them was accounted a crime equal to the unbelief of Jews or Saracens; he knew also that the prevailing belief, concerning witch...

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...islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, throug...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e, some have ap- peared already in The Cornhill, Longman ’s, Scribner, The english Illustrated, The Magazine of Art, The contemporary Review; three ar... ... cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Mic... ...ehole, on St. Michael’s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of Nort... ...or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy id... ..., having entered, leave it. It was a place besieged; the shopmen, like the Jews rebuilding Salem, had a double task. They kept us at the stick’s end, ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y sheer force of repetition, that view is imposed upon the reader. The two English mas- ters of the style, Macaulay and Carlyle, largely exemplify its... ... But the common, trashy mind of our gen- eration is still aghast, like the Jews of old, at any word of an unsuccessful virtue. Job has been written an... ...on Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a task of un- usual difficulty. I regret to find that Mr. Payne an... ... astonishing that their work should be so different. The fact is, that the English novel was looking one way and seeking one set of effects in the han... ...ead. Lastly, we have here already some beginning of that curious series of English blunders, that makes us wonder if there are neither proof-sheets no... ...d and com- forted the wicked kings of Israel; or of Jeremiah, who bade the Jews pray for the prosperity of Nebuchadnezzar. As for the Queen’s aid, the...

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...g stu- dent publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...hings were delivered in Low Dutch, her only language, and, translated into English, ran nearly as follows:— ‘My children, there is a God, who hears an... ... the war begun. ‘ She could only talk Dutch—and the Nealys could only talk English. Mr. Nealy could under- stand Dutch, but Isabel and her mistress co... ...t sprung up between herself and a slave named Robert. But his mas- ter, an Englishman by the name of Catlin, anxious that no one’s property but his ow... ...e, Pingster, as she calls it-but I think it must have been Whitsuntide, in English. She says she ‘looked back into Egypt, ’ and every thing looked ‘so... ...tural reason, asserting also 67 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth that the Jews did not shave, and that Adam had a beard. Mr. Pierson detailed to Matt... ... only heaven is on earth. All who are ignorant of truth are Ninevites. The Jews did not crucify Christ—it was the Gentiles. Every Jew has his guardian...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12 But Rabs... ...piss with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ................... 130 LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEA VE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE. ...................... 130 UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH’S HO... ...red to put his name and statue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exa... ...all well-educated men. More pointed sayings of Pope are afloat than of any English poet, except Shakspeare and Young. Indeed, if frequency of quotatio... ...e, with Shakspeare, Young, and Spenser, is one of the four most popular of English poets. In America, too, Lord Carlisle found, he tells us, the most ... ... Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Heroic Judith, as old Hebrews show, Preserved the Jews, and slew th’ Assyrian foe: At Hester’s suit, the persecuting sword Wa... ...ian prophet draws, And saving ignorance enthrones by laws. See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... afforded by another and a comparatively insignificant Oriental people—the Jews. They, too, had an absolute monarchy and a hierarchy, and their organi... ...ions more favor able to Progress could not easily exist; accordingly, the Jews, instead of being stationary like other Asiatics, were, next to the Gr... ... of French people is to say, “Il faut de la 47 J S Mill patience;” and of English people, “What a shame!” The people who think it a shame when any th... ...l. A benefit of the same kind, though far less in degree, is pro duced on Englishmen of the lower middle class by their li ability to be placed on j... ...a really national representation (which is in substance the history of the English Parliament), the nation has then the most favorable prospects of im... ... like best. Place hunting, accordingly, is a form of ambition to which the English, considered nationally, are almost strang ers. If we except the fe...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ... who now shudder at his conduct, if they had lived in his time and been born Jews, would have acted precisely as he did. Ortho dox Christians who are... ...n of the wish to persecute, as an example of that very frequent infirmity of English minds, which makes them take a preposterous pleasure in the asser... ...roved, it must be by foreigners. They have succeeded beyond all hope in what English philanthropists are so industriously working at—in making a peopl... ...than did those even of the last generation. The same remark might be made of Englishmen in a far greater degree. In a passage already quoted from Wilh... ...ant of knowledge of human nature and life which continually astonishes us in English lawyers, often help to mislead them. These trials speak volumes a... ...ual daily occupation, though in no respect religiously binding on any except Jews, is a highly beneficial custom. And inasmuch as this custom cannot b...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...h not in himself—a power over his own life. I confess, we find among the Jews, as well as other nations, that men did sell themselves; but it is pla... ...uch a compli ance, and is no more power than what a Frenchman has over an Englishman, who, by the hopes of an estate he will leave him, will certainl... ... have of the beginning of any polities in the world, excepting that of the Jews, where God Him self immediately interposed, and which favours not at ... ...cts, by their fathers being so. If a subject of England have a child by an English woman in France, whose subject is he? Not the King of England’s; f... ...l put himself under, what body politic he will unite himself to. For if an Englishman’s son born in France be at liberty, and may do so, it is evident... ...ed in possessing the countries they mastered. We are told by some that the English monarchy is founded in the Norman Conquest, and that our princes ha...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...I gives two adaptations from the French which have appeared in no previous English edition of Tolstoy’s works. They are not merely translations, for t... ...em his own. Part VII consists of stories Tolstoy contributed in aid of the Jews left destitute after the massacres and out rages in Kishinéf and else... ...ected Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “The Coffee House of Surat” 219 the Jews; and, as a proof, you quote the fact that the Jews are humiliated and ... ...by Tolstoy : “The Coffee House of Surat” 220 I came here from China on an English steamer which had been round the world. We stopped for fresh water,... ...r, who sailed to the very ends of the sea. ’ He would have gone on, but an English sailor from our ship interrupted him. ‘There is no country,’ he sai... ...elf in the morning and hid itself at night, just as it does here.’ And the Englishman took a stick and, drawing circles on the sand, tried to explain ... ...by Tolstoy : “Too Dear!” 229 PART VII STORIES GIVEN TO AID THE PERSECUTED JEWS 21 ESARHADDON, KING OF ASSYRIA THE A SSYRIAN K ING, ESARHADDON, had co...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... outer covering of the glans is called the preputium (foreskin), which the Jews cut off in circumcision, and it is fastened by the lower part of it to... ...onsidered, will be found to be merely the cause of an effect, is called in English, “the suffocation of the mother,” not because the womb is strangled... ...two drachms, zyloaloes, cinnamon, long birthwort, half an ounce each, best English saffron, half a scruple; with syrup of chicory and rhubarb make an ... ...g aside the name given to this by the Greeks and Lat- ins, it is called in English by the name of secundine, after- birth or after-burden; which are h... ...re kept from many infirmities, such as dropsy, plague, etc. Q. Why are the Jews much subject to this disease? A. Be- cause they eat much phlegmatic an... ...flux. Another reason is, motion causes heat and heat digestion; but strict Jews neither move, labour nor converse much, which breeds a coldness in the...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...op, and but a thousand all, Under another Robert fierce they run. Then the English squadron, soldiers stout and tall, By William led, their sovereign’... ..., Because we list not in our conquests stay: But for it seems he would the Jews protect, Pray him from us that thought aside to lay, Nor us forbid thi... ...y word, Ralph, Rosimond, and Eberard request, A Scottish, an Irish, and an English lord, Whose lands the seas divide far from the rest, And for the fi... ...wn weapon wound Godfredo’s hand; Kindle debate, infect with poison wan The English, Switzer, and Italian band, Great tumult move, make brawls and quar... ...ased, From thence unto the Switzers’ camp it went, And last infected every English tent. LXXIII Not public loss of their beloved knight, Alone stirred...